Following 9/11, the U.S. committed to winning the war on terror.
But here in the U.S., porous borders, increased crime and
violence from record number of illegals crossing into the
U.S. have citizens fearing for their safety, and demanding
action in securing our borders.

How serious is the problem?

Estimates put the illegal population as high as 10-13 million,
with more crossing each and every day--taxing our legal system,
our hospitals, spiking crime rates and stealing critically
needed benefits:

++ In 2004, 1.15 million illegals were apprehended.
That is more than 3,100 every day, and a 24 percent
increase over 2003.
++ Of the 1.15 million, 23,000 had criminal records.
84 were murder suspects, 37 were suspected kidnappers,
151 were wanted on sexual assault charges, 313 were
robbery suspects, and nearly 2,700 were implicated on
drug-related charges.
++ In 2004, Border Agents made 8,577 drug seizures and
confiscated 1.4 million pounds of illegal narcotics with
an estimated street value of $1.62 billion.

(Taken from a Washington Times Report).

Given these kinds of statistics, and the serious threat to our
national security, it is time to put the "illegal" back into
illegal immigration, and Secure Our Borders!

+ + 225,000 Citizen Petitions Needed

Grassfire is urging citizens from across the nation to take
immediate action with us by signing our petition to
"Secure Our Borders":

This issue poses a very real threat to every man, woman and child
living in our nation, and demands attention. That's why Grassfire
wants to rally 225,000 citizen responses to present them to key
lawmakers--demanding they make the issue of illegal immigration
a NUMBER ONE PRIORITY this year.

Unless strong, decisive action is taken, the flow of illegals into
our nation will only increase--further threatening our national
security.

Grassfire will be presenting hundreds of thousands of grassroots
petitions supporting S. 1438. We are urging ALL citizens who want
tighter border security to support this legislation by adding
their names to our petition: